Trump Budget Cuts “Critical” NASA Climate Missions

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Date

April 1, 2017

News Type

Media Highlight

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Scientific American

“'The value for the global economy far, far exceeds [the] costs' of a mission like CLARREO, Roger Cooke, a risk mathematician at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan environmental think tank, said."

Topics

Earth Observations for Policy

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Roger Cooke

Senior Fellow Emeritus

Roger Cooke is a senior fellow emeritus at RFF. He joined RFF in September 2005 as the first appointee to the Chauncey Starr Chair in Risk Analysis.

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